It's actually really great that Chinese fighters are getting more recognition

It's actually really great that Chinese fighters are getting more recognition

A Martial Arts promotion without some proper Chinese and Japanese presence always seems kind of uncool and inauthentic.

These guys and their Shaolin Temples were the og martial artists. And thanks to them, and efforts of Bruce Lee especially, Martials Arts became critcally acclaimed in the west, and then from their, globally.

u/Hopeful_Adeptness964 — 2 months ago
▲ 14 r/narcos

Do you think Gustavo really was the real mind behind escobars narcos empire?

The Ochoas said Gustavo was the mastermind who made the medelin cartel what it was. And put escobar on the thrown. I'm watching this show again and I just wonder how much of that is true. Quiet frankly even after Gustavo died, he still kept getting bigger and bigger.

IMHO it only started going downhill - heck it crashed and burned seemingly overnight the moment his enemies let those crazy paramilitary guys on the loose.

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u/Hopeful_Adeptness964 — 2 months ago

Is the US like living in a wonderland?

I live in a small country where everything is sameish anywhere you go.

But the US is huge, I forget it's bigger than the whole of the EU. It seems like it's like 50 small countries all bound by a common language and currency. And is also the only country i've seen with basically every climate... snow covered mountains to scorching deserts to big cities to pristine beaches and tropical paradises like hawaii to a winter wonderland like alaska. Maybe true rainforests like in south america is the only exception?

You could probably spend your life just travelling america and probably never get bored.

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u/Hopeful_Adeptness964 — 2 months ago

Do you really notice a difference between effects of white, black, yellow and red vines

Obviously for people that have tried more than one...

Apparently white and yellow or best for a gentler journey, or medicinal effect if you're strictly just brewing b.caapi, but they say red is rhe best for a deep physical purge and black best for deeper journeying.

Is this correct?

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u/Hopeful_Adeptness964 — 2 months ago
▲ 207 r/narcos

Does anybody absolutely despise this pig f, and his equally nasty ass kid more than anything else in the show? 😖

That scene where they shoot his kid and he has to watch is one of my favourite in the whole show, cause they fucking deserved it imho

u/Hopeful_Adeptness964 — 2 months ago
▲ 2 r/iCloud

Why doesn't iCloud let you use custom prefix for 'hide my email'?

Or does it?

I have iCloud plus and I would love to use it more often, but it's often extremely obtuse and counter-initiative trying to spell out 'Unusual-Wafflehouses.06@icloud' to a foreign customer service rep.

Simplogin and esp Addy mail forewarding services demonstrate that allowing this is actually quite easy. If even addy which is essentially a one-man band can accomplish this, what is stopping the biggest retail tech company in the world from allowing the same?

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u/Hopeful_Adeptness964 — 2 months ago
▲ 68 r/mexico

According to the world peace index Mexico ranks 139/163 for safest:least safest countries in the world

Just two places ahead of Columbia even.

For reference sake - the safest Latin American country is allegedly Uruguay at 43. Argentina is at 72.

Spain is at 27.

Apprently, this would make Mexico less safe than Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Ecuador and even Venezuela.

Do you any opinions about any of this or it's general accuracy?

u/Hopeful_Adeptness964 — 2 months ago

How to deal with girlfriends double standards?

I am western of first gen Indian origin. My girlfriend is western of first gen Turkish-Cypriot origin.

Sometimes she likes to take digs at me calling me a 'lil pakistani baby' or making such jokes to wind me up cause she knows it's quite cheeky, waits for some kind of response then usually laughs or something if she doesn't really get one. She does it a fair bit and I usually passively shake my head or laugh along since i'm quite passive even though I found it a little bit annoying which I guess is the point, but one time she poked fun at me at the wrong time, and I said 'what about you, I can't decide whether you look more like a mongolian war lord or japanese samurai' hinting at the slightly east asian features some turkish people have. And she lost it and has barely been talking to me the same ever since telling me what I said is 'out of order' two days ago only replying with one word texts. Should I just say sorry for over-reacting as it clearly bothers her more than it does me or tell her to stop being such a hypocrite and a cry baby?

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u/Hopeful_Adeptness964 — 2 months ago

How come Apple have managed to build a working UNIX based phone but FreeBSD hasn't?

Most of the repslies I have heard of centre around how 'difficult' it is, and yet Apple have built a UNIX smartphone, and previously, wi-fi equipment too.

Even Linux has succeeded in both. Apple has proven it can be done for UNIX too.

Is this down to pure lazyness?

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u/Hopeful_Adeptness964 — 2 months ago

I don't understand why German doesn't consider making a federation with US and British Monarch over the EU?

US is the most powerful military force and economy in the world, the Britsh crown own 9/10 of the world offshore jurisdictions, they represent Germany's most immediate cultural predecessors along with canada, australia and nz. Meanwhile most of Europe ie romansh is related to arabic other near eastern cultures.

If Germany, and their filthy rich peers in lichtenstein and switzerland were to make their own federation, perhaps with the dutch too, it would be the most powerful union perhaps in history - in terms of intelligence networking, tecgnological, economic and militray might, and pure wealth.

But instead Germany is content frollicking with these simpletons in Europe - Spain, Italy, France etc that have no ambition beyond going for a little itty bitty eco friendly bike ride through a flower park, drinking wine for breakfast and eating grapes in the sun, meanwhile Communist China is trying to take over the entire world.

What would Germania think of what Germany has become?

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u/Hopeful_Adeptness964 — 2 months ago

I went to Florida (Miami, Orlando) on holiday and was surprised that staff in large stores only spoke spanish?

Both staff and customers. I was surprised but wondered if it's normal. I thought all the Spanish peple were in California?

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u/Hopeful_Adeptness964 — 2 months ago

Best way to learn German without getting a headache?

I (already know four languages fluently but I am tryong to expand my horizons and possibly te-locate to Germany)

I tried to learn German. Only other European Language I know is English.

I find German is difficult. It's grammatical syntax seems quite Similar to English compared to Romansh based languages that I studied for a few days. However it's not short and to the point like English but rather I find it can tend to really drag on any single point you hear someone make in German - like you think they are done but they just carry on like 'hang on, i'm no done yet' still continuing to add to the complex description and long hauled spelling.

I've been learning solely through free youtube tutorials and wondered if there are some school level books I could use (like national curriculum books) or even a fun game or app I can use to make the process more fun and interesting.

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u/Hopeful_Adeptness964 — 2 months ago